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English: Part of a series of diagrams explaining the warp and weft of a tartan. See also the related diagrams: Image:Tartan diagram (warp and weft) A.svg and Image:Tartan diagram (warp and weft) C.svg.
Tartan became a symbol of Scottish identity, particularly after the 16th century, despite bans following the Jacobite rising of 1745 under the Dress Act 1746. The 19th-century Highland Revival popularized tartan globally, associating it with Highland dress and the Scottish diaspora. Today, tartan is used worldwide in clothing, accessories, and ...
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In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
"Tartan", the stereotypical tartan-wearing piper caricature that is the mascot of Scotia-Glenville High School in Scotia, New York. Tartanry is the stereotypical or kitsch representation of traditional Scottish culture, particularly by the emergent Scottish tourism industry in the 18th and 19th centuries, and later by the American film industry. [1]
The region of Labrador also has its own design of tartan and it was created by Michael S. Martin. [18] The tartan of Labrador, which can be related to Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, [19] was sent to the Scottish Register of Tartans. [18] The design is not public and can only be woven by its designer. Northwest Territories
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